Improvement in cloth-measuring machines



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A. F. MOLLRING. Cloth-Measuring Machine.

No. 222,931. Patented Dec. 23, 1879.

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2 NVENTOR ATTORN EY N. PEI'ERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPIIER, WASHINGTON, n c.

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ALF. MOL-LRING. Cloth-Measuring Machine.

P'atentedDec. 23, 1879.

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WITNESS ATTORNEY "PETERS. PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, DC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARNOLD F. MOLLRING, OF NEBRASKA (JITYgNEBRASKA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTH-MEASURING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,931 dated December 23, 1879; application filed August 28, 1879.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ARNOLD F. MOLLRING, of Nebraska City, in the county of ()toe and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Machines for R011- ing Goods with Measuring-Slips; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference beingliad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a top view thereof. Fig. 3 isa longitudinal vertical section of the same; and Figs. 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9, and 10 are details.

Thisinvention has relation toimprovements in machines for measuring the contents of a roll of dry-goods, carpet, matting, and the like, and for rolling up therewith a measuringstrip of suitable material, laid off in yards, half-yards, quarters, and other fractions of a yard.

The nature of the invention will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a strong wooden or. metallic frame, the side bars of whichare raised or arched, as indicated at a, and afford bearings to a measuring-roller, B, of eighteen inches in circumference, though it may be a full yard or any desired fractional part thereof, as a quarter or eighth yard. In close proximity to this roller is a smaller roller, 0, which may be denominated the tightener, that may also be journaled in the part aof the frame. These rollers are generally about thirty-seven inches in length, but may be made shorter or longer, as required by the width of the goods.

One of the journals of the measuring-roller has secured upon its end outside of the frame a finger or gear, I), that engages a notched graduated disk, D, having its bearings in said frame, and graduated in half'yards and fractions thereof when the roller Bis one halfuring-roller, it being eighteen (18) inches in circumference, one half-yard will have been paid off. The finger l) is in the nature of a cross-head, and as the measuringroller turns over at each complete revolution, the dial will indicatea corresponding measurement-namely, a half-yard. Should the measuring-roller be a yard in circumference, its complete rotation will indicate a yard upon the dial.

The goods to be measured are usually wound upon a board, 0, the ends of which project and are secured in "the clamps D. These clamps rotate in bearings in one end of frame A, and they embrace the ends of the board 0. The material is thence passed under and around the tightening-roller, thence under and above and around the measuring roller, and thence downward to a receiving device, E. This is composed of a board, a, and two rotary clamps, H H, each having its bearings in the sides .of the frame and designed to clasp the ends of said board. 7

Extending acrosst-he frame A is a metallic bridge, F, upon which is a laterally-adjustable reel, G, upon which is wound a paper strip, G, graduated for yards and fractional portions thereof, and made of any sufficiently tough material, usually paper. the strip and of the goods are brought together and secured to the board 0. The clamp H has upon one end a gear-wheel, d, that engages a larger gear, 01,- having its bearings in the sides of the frame, and actuated by a crank-arm or other equivalent device, 01 The goods are wound up, gs the crank is actuated, in an equal degree with the measuringstrip aforesaid. Consequently the contents of the goods will be indicated both on the dial and on said strip. Hence, by noting thecontents of the roll in yards, as the fractional parts are disposed of, any desired measurement may be arrived at.

This device may also be used as a ribbonroller by inserting the spurred heads L in opposite sides of the frame and placing the ribbon-block between them.

When goods are wound in a roll without a center-board I employ the device indicated in Fig. 6, consisting of a spindle, q, of flat form transversely, having at one end a journal, q,

The ends of a head, 1 and at the other end a tapering rounded point, g forming a journal, 41 This device is thrust through the bolt of cloth longitudinally, and substituted for the clamp device D.

The spindles from which the materials are unwound, and upon which they are wound, may be constructed of two longitudinal sections, clamped together at their ends and clipping the ends'of the goods between them. These spindles have suitable independent bearings in the frame, or may use and occupy the bearings of the spindles of which they are thesubstitutes. This modification is illustrated in Fig. 7' at'N. The push-spindle N (shown in Fig. 4) may be also used to clamp the ends of a board by passing thereon the clamps 0.

As shown .in Fig. 3, the measuring-strip is prevented from unwinding too fast-that is, beyond the rate at which the goods are rolled up on the receivingspindle-by means of a metallic spring, a, secured at one end to the frame of the reel, and hearing at the other on the roll of measuring-strip.

The tightening-roller is journaled in a vibrating metallic frame, X, pivoted to the main frame and extending up a sufficient distance to beout of the way. Frame X is locked to the bridge F, supporting the reel, by means of a laterally-adjustable catch, 2, arranged on said bridge and engaging the top bar of said frame, as shown. By throwing up the latch and lowering the vibrating frame the tightening-roller is retracted from the measuringroller, and the goods readily passed between them.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the rolls D and E, carrying the cloth, the measuring-roll ant ti gh tenin g-roll@ pf the laterally-ad j ustableroll G, carrying the in'as'uring strip'e thewhole" adapted to operate in such manner as to wind the measuring-strips together in one bolt, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ARNOLD FREDRIOK MOLLRING.

Witnesses:

O. Vl/ZSEYMOUR, JOHN H. DAHL. 

